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Illegal Pete’s restaurant teams up on queso-flavored cannabis vape pen

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:56:15 GMT

There are myriad ways to celebrate National Queso Day (Sept. 20), whether you use this culinary delicacy as a dip, a dollop or a full-on smothering agent. Thanks to one Colorado cannabis company, locals will be able to enjoy queso in a new way – by smoking it.Denver-based company O.pen recently teamed up with local Tex-Mex chain Illegal Pete’s to create a marijuana vape pen inspired by the restaurant’s signature side. According to O.pen spokesperson Brittany Hallet, the oil in the Illegal Pete’s Queso pen gets its well-aged flavor from a strain of cannabis called UK Cheese, a sativa-leaning hybrid that boasts “euphoric” effects.The pen, which costs $37, hits dispensary shelves on Friday to coincide with National Queso Day. Those who buy it also get a coupon for free small chips and queso (retail value $4.29) redeemable at any Illegal Pete’s location in the state.“Food and marijuana go well together, so we felt this is nice harmony,” Hallet said.Related ArticlesRestaurants, Food and ...

8 must-see Denver classical, jazz and dance performances for fall 2023

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:56:15 GMT

Related ArticlesArts | What to do this week in Denver: Festival of Horror, Latin Fashion Week, Chuck D on stage Autumn is the high season for the fine arts, the time of year when the folks who make and show classic and contemporary music and dance put on their biggest events. This year, there are plenty of performances to choose from, and these eight are at the top of the list.Martha Graham Dance Company, 100th Anniversary TourNewman Center, Sept. 22-23No company embodies the history of contemporary dance in the U.S. quite like the troupe Martha Graham first assembled in 1926. The legendary choreographer stretched the limits of modernity and inspired scores of dance makers that followed. To celebrate its upcoming 100th anniversary, the company has embarked on a three-year, international tour that stops for two nights at Newman. The program celebrates the past with one of Graham’s jewels, the 1948 work titled “Diversion of Angels,” but also mirrors the company’s desir...

Vail looking to distribute $5,500 through e-bike rebate program before end of year

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:56:15 GMT

VAIL — Vail’s rebate program for electric bikes will distribute about $5,500 before the end of 2023, the town announced Monday afternoon.Related ArticlesColorado News | E-bike shops in Denver battle repeat thefts: “Insurance doesn’t solve trauma” The e-bike rebate program was implemented in May 2023 in an effort to make e-bike ownership more accessible to residents and Vail employees.Since May 1, 32 rebates — which equates to about $9,500 — have been issued. An additional $5,500 will be distributed before the end of the year, the town said.This effort, like many others around the state, stemmed from a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Specifically, the Climate Action Plan for Eagle County has a goal of reducing these kinds of emissions 25% by 2025, 50% by 2030, and 80% by 2050. That plan was developed in 2016 by more than 30 stakeholders and updated in 2020. It was adopted by the Town of Vail in 2018.According to the latest energy...

This Colorado farm has repeatedly violated federal labor laws. Why does the U.S. continue to grant it foreign workers?

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:56:15 GMT

BRIGHTON — The seasonal workers from Mexico stoop in oppressive summer heat, bending low to cut cucumbers bound for farmers markets and produce aisles at Colorado’s big-box grocery chains.The laborers come to Star Farms every year on temporary visas, part of the federal government’s H-2A program that allows U.S. employers to hire foreign workers for critical agricultural jobs.From 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., they till the soil and tie the vines. Others thin, prune, seal, pack and load cabbage, peppers, onions and other vegetables.But despite federal regulations, workers and their lawyers say the farm’s owner does not provide them with clean water, forcing them to buy and bring their own. The bathrooms on-site, they say, sometimes go months without being cleaned. With little option, they allege, workers feel compelled to urinate and defecate in the fields.On top of that, they say the workers at Star Farms haven’t seen a paycheck in seven weeks.“Every year it...

GABF spotlights Black brewers in special section at this year’s beer festival

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:56:15 GMT

Despite being a longtime beer drinker and brewery owner, Celeste Beatty has only attended the Great American Beer Festival once in its 40-plus-year history.In 2001, she founded Harlem Brewing Co. and began contracting with other beer makers to bring her original recipes to market. Beer has been Beatty’s way of connecting with her heritage and community. As a Black woman, she looks to the Harlem Renaissance, the Sugar Hill district, and icons like baseball players Buck Leonard and Josh Gibson for inspiration in her craft.Beatty has always wanted to share her beers – and the unique stories they honor – with drinkers at GABF, but was unsure if she’d fit in with the “big guys” who typically serve there. This year, however, Beatty jumped at the opportunity to pour on the festival floor after learning there would be an area dedicated to brewers of color.Harlem Brewing Co. will be one of five booths in the first National Black Brewers Association Pavilion, which will inha...

My Brother’s Bar owner bringing coffee shop, food truck park to West Colfax

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:56:15 GMT

Danny Newman usually buys a property and leaves it be. This time around, he’s starting something new.The 42-year-old tech entrepreneur is known for preserving unique buildings and buying beloved Denver businesses, like 150-year-old My Brother’s Bar and the Mercury Cafe.But at 4200 W. Colfax Ave., in a former tire shop, he’s launching a new concept: Full Tank Food Park.Newman — who also owns the top of the downtown clocktower — said the business on Colfax, which will open next week, is a mashup of a traditional neighborhood coffee shop and a food truck park. The coffee shop will operate in the 1,200-square-feet building, while the food trucks will park outside the 0.22-acre lot.Newman bought the site in 2018 for $755,000, but it’s sat untouched since. He originally planned to open “Colfax Country Club” — not to be confused with the public golf course in Iowa — which would include table tennis, mini golf, a swimming pool and “Denver’s tiniest motel,” with just one room.Tha...

CHP opens fire on driver who allegedly tried to ram officers

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:56:15 GMT

A driver is being sought after allegedly trying to ram officers who then opened fire in Compton late Monday night.The incident occurred shortly after 11:30 p.m. as California Highway Patrol officers were in the area of Alondra Boulevard and South Maple Avenue. A car abandoned by an assault with a deadly weapon suspect is seen in Compton on Sept. 18, 2023. (KeyNews.TV)The officers opened fire on a white Kia that apparently tried to run them down, a CHP spokesperson said. The driver left the scene but the vehicle was found abandoned a short distance later near Cypress Street and South Aprilia Avenue.Video showed several bullet holes in the Kia, along with damage from some type of collision. Authorities have not located the driver who remains outstanding. The area of Alondra and Maple remained closed during the investigation. No officers were injured in the incident.

From the Roadshow archives: The Prius Party of 2011, featuring Steve Wozniak and plenty of yellow stickers

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:56:15 GMT

Editor’s note: Mr. Roadshow wanted to share some of his favorite columns and stories from more than 30 years of informing, entertaining and getting things changed for Bay Area (and beyond) drivers. He’ll be back on the road with new material soon. In the meantime, please keep sending Mr. Roadshow your comments or questions to [email protected] story originally was published on June 26, 2011There was no crying at Roadshow’s Prius Party on Sunday, where a couple of hundred people gathered in the Mercury News parking lot. From throughout the South Bay to as far away as Folsom, they came to peel off their yellow carpool stickers to mark the end of one of the freeway’s most divisive perks:This Friday, we’re getting booted for good out of California’s carpool lanes.Actually, a tear or two was shed. Mine was the first.“You ready?” said a gleeful Dennis Cole of Gilroy, who three years ago said he desperately wanted to remove the sticker...

California tops FEMA’s new list of areas vulnerable to weather disasters. What does it mean for the Bay Area?

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:56:15 GMT

Despite the name, “Community Disaster Resilience Zones” are not local havens capable of withstanding storms and other extreme weather. But the Federal Emergency Management Agency, better known as FEMA, is spending billions in hopes that they can be.The agency has identified nearly 500 such “zones,” swaths of land generally covering several miles that are ill-prepared to tolerate flooding, earthquakes, heat waves, wildfires, landslides and other natural hazards. As extreme weather is expected to continue shattering expectations and local records — from downpours drenching Death Valley to hurricanes pummeling California’s coastline — these areas will be prioritized for additional funding for protective improvements.While the new zones aren’t promised any specific funding, projects in selected census tracts will be prioritized for annual resilience grant programs and an increased federal cost share from FEMA other federal agencies — tapping budgets t...

Despite environmental concerns, Port of Oakland to allow sand and gravel plant

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:56:15 GMT

OAKLAND — With the promise of millions of dollars in lease revenue, officials at the city’s port will allow the construction of a sand and gravel plant that environmentalists and even the state attorney general have warned would worsen air pollution in West Oakland.Eagle Rock Aggregates, a Vancouver, Canada-based company, will store large volumes of the building materials in the open air at an 18-acre marine bulk terminal at the harbor.The 12-year lease — approved last week by the port’s board of commissioners — is expected to generate between $1 million and $6 million annually for the city’s port, where officials have pushed to expand economic activity and often touted local job creation.Residents and environmental advocates in the nearby West Oakland neighborhoods have said for years that the area experiences disproportionately worse air pollution, and studies have shown twice the rate of asthma hospitalizations and emergency room visits as othe...